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These days there are too many contests for bloggers. Cheers!

• John Chow is going to give away 10,000 Entrecard credits to a lucky blogger. If you have an Entrecard account, you can have a try.
• Jay from Dat Money is running a “Get Traffic” contest where you can get reviews and ad spots on blogs which total around 300,000+ visitors monthly; not bad if you want to get your name out there.

DatMoney.com
Carlocab.com
Garryconn.com
Theuniversitykid.com
Theblogentrepreneur.com
Bloggernoob.com
Blogaboutyourblog.com
Piggybankpie.com
Jonathanvolk.com
Winningtheweb.com
Etienneteo.com
Yimto.com
Adesblog.com
Blogpremiere.com/forum

• Reid from Mooney Quest is having a slightly smaller contest but one that it easier to enter; there are over $900 in prizes up for grabs and all you have to do is subscribe to stand a chance of winning. One of the prizes is a year of free hosting which anyone should be able to put to use.
• Webmaster Talk recently bought out Earners Forum for some obscene amount and they are celebrating with a contest. More than $25,000 in prizes, including some pretty sexy electronic goodies.

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Jim from TheNetFool now is holding a great contest to “get traffic”. He promises to give out $4,500 in cash and 15,500 Entrecard credits to his readers. Well, I must admit he will make it to get his expected huge traffic. Among his prizes, I like cash best. It’s best for a Chinese blogger who writes a blog with little traffic.

Here is the details of this contest.

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Jason from The University Kid today announced that his new blog Blog Premiere had launched! Let’s what he said in the About page of Blog Premiere!

I was randomly breezing through a car magazine (don’t ask why) while reading a few of the blogs I regularly frequent when I received an email from a newbie to blogging, asking me about a place he could go on the Internet to read all about blogging. I was going to recommend that he visit a few of the blogs I regularly read, but after taking a look at a few of them realised the posts were often off topic, the questions left on comments unanswered and there was simply too much content to read for a newbie with no clue that wanted to get into blogging.

It was then that the idea for Blog Premiere was born.

You see, a lot of the people looking to get into blogging are those with part time jobs - although a lot of us would love to make our money from home working as a problogger, quitting a stable, ’standard’ job to do so with no idea of how revenue will come in is foolish to the extreme. Those that run part time blogs often have limited time to do the necessary research, especially as blogging is a field with many different aspects; what we’re going to try and do is compile bits and pieces of all those aspects and present them to you in an easy-to-read format every single month.

Tips and tricks on how to make the most out of blogging, interviews with those well established in the blogging industry, reviews of the tools and products that may help you succeed… that’s what we promise you, and that’s what you’ll get. Blog Premiere aims to go where no person in the industry has ever gone before, and develop a world class, professionally created blog magazine, one read by millions worldwide and one that will be responsible for people getting into blogging… and succeeding.

Sound impossible? Well, what I’ve learned over the years is that if you don’t shoot, you don’t score, and also this attempt at a shot may be taken from well behind the half way line in your average sport, I feel that I have a very good chance of scoring. Poor metaphors aside, I will not be going at this alone; I’ll have some of the biggest names in the blogosphere backing me and with their help, Blog Premiere is going to kick ass.

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Yes! That’s it! I couldn’t believe myself the first eyes I saw. But that’s true. The contest is held by the guy Gyutae Park from Winning the Web. You can see the prises listed below or see more details in his original page.

Prizes Recap - $7,119 Total

• $650 Cash from Azoogle Ads
• $500 Cash from PepperJam Network
• $250 Cash from NeverblueAds
• $200 Cash from BidVertiser
• 1 Full Conference Pass to Affiliate Summit East ($949 value)
• 3 Month Membership to Aaron Wall’s SEO Training Program ($300 value)
• 6 Month Membership to SEOmoz Pro ($249 value)
• 12 Month Subscription to RankSense Professional ($630 value)
• 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan from Purple Internet Marketing ($800 value)
• The Secret Classroom from Joel Comm & Next Internet Millionaire ($497 value)
• Autographed Copy of Kris’ Jones Upcoming Book on SEO ($20 value)
• Copy of the SEO Handbook 2008 from HuoMah ($10 value)
• 8 PSD Custom Banner Designs from Banners Mall ($275 value)
• 2 Exclusive Blog Themes from Unique Blog Designs (2 winners - $100 value each)
• 2 Revolution Wordpress Blog Themes from Brian Gardner (2 winners -$80 value each)
• Wordpress Coding from CSS Rockstars ($209 value)
• 1 Year Swamp Plan Web Hosting from Host Gator ($150 value)
• 1 Hour Blog Optimization Consulting from Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips ($175 value)
• 3 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on AndyBeard.eu ($100 value)
• 1 Month Text Link Ad on Ades Blog ($90 value)
• 1 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on John Cow ($125 value)
• 6 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on JonLee.ca ($300 value)
• 3 Fast Passes, 3 Featured Statuses, and 5000 Credits from Entrecard
• 1 Paid Review on Winning the Web - sponsored by 1 Cool File ($100 value)
• 20 Winning the Web T-shirts (20 winners - $9 value each)

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The Ultimate Blog Contest is really the ultimate! So many prizes! Here are the details of prizes:

Contest Prizes

Wordpress Themes

- Two licenses for the Revolution Theme ($160)
- Two licenses for the Premium News Theme ($200)
- Two licenses for the Purple Fever Theme ($100)
- One hundred accounts to the Themes Club ($500)

Blog Tools

- Three licenses by FruitfulTime.com ($90)

Blog Analysis

- Full Video Review By Marcus Hochstadt ($700)

eBooks

- SEO Book Donated By The Net Fool

Blog Advertising

One Month

- Two 125 x 125 on Wayne Liew ($30)
- One 125 x 125 On Blogger Noob ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on EZ Money Online ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Affiliate Gossip ($15)
- One 125 x 125 on Rhyan ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Jim Karter ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on Neotrepreneur ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Life is Colourful ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on BLJConsultant ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Resell Rights World ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Viking Blogger ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Dot Com Mogul ($10)

- One 468 x 60 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- Five 16 x 16 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- One 150 x 150 on Blogging 4 Cash ($5)
- One Text Link On Mr Javo ($7)

Three Months

- One 125 x 125 on The WWW Observer ($75)

Blog Reviews

- One Review By The University Kid ($60)
- One Review By Yimto ($20)
- One Review By The WWW Observer ($35)
- One Review By Bloggeries ($25)
- One Review By Neotrepreneur ($10)
- One Review By Life Is Colourful ($40)
- One Review By DaBlogger

Consulting

One hour consulation with The University Kid
Thirty minutes consulation with Neotrepreneur

Design

- One Custom Done 125 x 125 Ad By Affiliate Gossip
- One Custom Done Sketch By The Pencil Sketch And Art Blog

Entrecard Credits

- 2000 Entrecard Credits By Xavier Media
- 1750 Entrecard Credits By Mixed Market Arts
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Toast & Egg & Me
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Confession
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Yimto
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Site Hoppin’
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Neotrepreneur
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Gossip
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By BLJ Consultant
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Resell Rights World
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Happier Life
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Article Snatch
- 800 Entrecard Credits By Kirushanth
- 750 Entrecard Credits By Money Making Student
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Bud Calabrese
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Mr Javo
- 500 Entrecard Credits By ImpNerd
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Life Is Colourful
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Money Making Blogs

Total: 15,800

Cash

$100 Paypal by The Profit Hustler
$30 Paypal by Viking Blogger
$15 Paypal by Final Fantasy Fan
$10 Paypal by The WWW Observer
$5 Paypal by Affiliate Gossip

Miscellaneous

300 Stumbles + 300 Reviews from Niklas
$50.00 In Stumble Upon Advertising By Mixed Market Arts
Twenty Pages By One Buck Wiki
Domain Monetization Package By Domains Earn 4U
One featured, three regular links from The SEOTree Directory

So go to TUK to see the whole story! You can’t miss it, anyway!

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Here is an article teaches you how to find the hot spot for the use of SEO. The original source is SearchEngineWatch.

Millions of searches are conducted each day on popular search engines by people all around the world. What are they looking for? A number of major search engines provide a way to glimpse into the web’s query stream to discover the most popular search keywords or topics. These are:

• AOL Hot Searches: Top current queries, or see those in the last hour, last day and within particular categories.
• Ask IQ: See top searches at Ask.
• Dogpile SearchSpy: Choose to see either a filtered or non-filtered sample of top, real-time search terms from this popular meta search service. Sister site MetaCrawler offers a similar MetaCrawler MetaSpy service.
• Google Trends: Allows you to tap into Google’s database of searches, to determine what’s popular. View the volume of queries over time, by city, regions, languages and so on. Compare multiple terms, as well. See our review: Google Trends: Peer Into Google’s Database Of Searches.
• Google Zeitgeist: What people are searching for at Google and its associated specialty services in a variety of categories. There are versions for various countries, as well.
• Lycos 50: Long-standing service showing top searches at Lycos each week.
• MSN Search Insider: Top 200 queries on MSN Search (annoyingly in random order), top “movers” in TV, sports and music, and a “duels” feature pitting top queries in a race against each other.
• Yahoo Buzz Index: Shows you what’s hot and what’s not in terms of search topics at Yahoo.

Also see:

• dWoz Search Phrase Lists: Great directory of services like those above, for search engines large and small, across the web. Also see the Search Spies & Voyuers category.
• Google AdWords Keyword Tool: Enter a term or terms, the use the drop-down box to see the popularity of terms and popularity over time.
• Yahoo Keyword Selector Tool: Formerly called the Overture Keyword Selector Tool and the Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool before that, this free service is primarily designed to help advertisers who wish to select terms to target with ads on the Yahoo network. But you can use it to see how popular particular terms are.
• Researching Keywords: For Search Engine Watch members, this provides an annotated rundown on key tools useful for search marketers needing to perform search research for their campaigns.
• Search Term Research and Search Behavior: These categories of Search Engine Watch’s Search Topics area compile articles on the subject of how people search from across the web and stretching back to 1997. Available only to Search Engine Watch members.

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